4xxx Radeon to 6850 and WORSE performance..HELP!

[BD231]

He did say he was getting 40 ish fps in SC2?

He still should not be getting any hiching in TF2.

40ish is absolutely right for SC2, even the strongest systems don't get much past 50/60fps in that title. What he's probably noticing is hard drive access and unoptimized drivers on a card that was *just* released. He dose not say the game is not playable so I'm guessing it's minute hitching and nothing that would drastically take away from his experience playing.

It's one thing if the card is visually " chugging ", but a hitch is usually not related to a major drop in FPS.

Likin it to your hard drive having to deal with a spyware program and gaming at the same time, sometimes a program needs to access your HD and as a result your gaming will choke for a second while that happens. His scores are all in line. I'd just wait a bit and let the drivers mature, defrag regularly and make sure there are no other services running in the background that might interrupt gameplay.

 

[deimos3428]

But a 6850 shouldn't be struggling on TF2 at that resolution at all. It should be hitting a fairly steady 60 fps even with v-sync on, 60-100 off. BD231's right that something else in the system maybe affecting performance. This thread has a decent explanation of how v-sync works:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=928593

 

[Morphx2]

Well, everything seems to be better for some reason today.

I did a system restore back a few days. And while it was doing a system restore, I noticed something. I kinda made a boo-boo with my power supply. My old one had a 24-pin ATX and this one had a 20 and a separate 4. I forgot to plug the 4-in. Not sure if that was the reason, but it seems to be playing somewhat better after the restore and uninstalling/reinstalling drivers.

 

[techie81]

That could make a huge difference.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Well, everything seems to be better for some reason today.

I did a system restore back a few days. And while it was doing a system restore, I noticed something. I kinda made a boo-boo with my power supply. My old one had a 24-pin ATX and this one had a 20 and a separate 4. I forgot to plug the 4-in. Not sure if that was the reason, but it seems to be playing somewhat better after the restore and uninstalling/reinstalling drivers.

As long as you're not plugging the 4-pin ATX12V connector into the main ATX connector's last 4 pins. That could lead to disaster.

 

[Morphx2]

nah, its the 4-pin thats connected to the 20-pin ATX

I also did this which helped tons

Apparently triple buffering doesnt work with D3D (or something like that)

So looked online and found D3DOverrider.

Used that and everything is a LOT smoother even with high settings 🙂